Donald Trump has won the 2024 election and will become the new president of the United States of America today we'll review a news article on this topic to help you improve all areas of your English welcome back to J Forest English of course I'm Jennifer now let's get started our headline Trump pulls off historic White House comeback first let's talk about a comeback do you know what this is this is a return to a previous position or role but it's usually after an absence so Trump was the previous president and then there was a 4-year absence where he wasn't the president and it can also mean after facing challenges which Trump did as well so he had both of these so you can use this in a political context but this is commonly used in sports a sports team can make a comeback so they can win but then lose or face challenges for a period of time and then win again or it can be in one game as well this is commonly used in the expression to make a comeback so here the verb is make that you would conjugate in a sports context for example the team made a comeback in the last 20 minutes so this sounds like in one game the team was winning but then they started losing or facing challenges but then they started winning again the team made a comeback we also use this with fashion trends or things that were popular were not popular for a period of time and then are popular again for example wide leg jeans so just jeans where the pant leg is wide instead of tight fitting wide Le L genes have made a comeback they were popular not popular popular again so now you know what comeback means let's take a look at this very useful phrasal verb pull off to pull something off means to succeed but to succeed in doing something difficult or challenging so it's difficult to make a comeback and win the presidency for a second time but Trump did that so he pulled it off the it being winning the election this is commonly used in many different ways you can use this to express doubt there's no way we can pull that off so maybe that is preparing a presentation in five minutes there's no way we can pull that off so to express doubt in the ability to accomplish something difficult it's also used to express optimism if we work together we can pull it off we can accomplish something difficult or we also use it after we succeed and we express our shock or astonishment I can't believe we pulled it off so in this case the team was successful and they still cannot believe their Result One More example learning English is difficult but with a great teacher I know I can pull it off what do you think do you agree with that if you do put that's right that's right put that's right in the comments and I hope I'm that great teacher to help you pull it learning English to pull it off now don't worry about taking notes because I summarize everything in a free lesson PDF you can find the link in the description now let's continue and learn about how Trump made this comeback how he pulled it off the Republican this is Donald Trump the Republican comfortably defeated Democrat kamla Harris in what polls had suggested would be a very tight election okay so the polls the polls represents the the ballots submitted so the votes submitted those are the pools now the pools said it was going to be very tight which means that the results were going to be quite close together quite even so very tight but we know that the result was not very tight it wasn't very close or even because Trump comfortably defeated Harris so if he comfortably defeated it means means it wasn't a tight result it wasn't a close result in this context a synonym for comfortably defeated could be easily easily defeated he becomes the first former president to return to the White House in more than 130 years so this suggest that it isn't easy to do to win and then to lose and then to win again so this is an example of how he made a comeback how he pulled it off and notice here that white house where the president lives and does business requires the article the because it's a unique location the White House now how about this the what does the' belong to in this use it actually belongs to first because first is an ordinal number and ordinal numbers require the as an article this is why you would need to say I work on the second floor the second floor because second is an ordinal number now even though in this case it's connected to first president also requires an article and usually usually the article the' because you're referring to a specific and unique one let's review this sentence Donald Trump has been named the next president of the United States so this article the belongs to president next is an adjective because as of right now the day of the election he isn't officially president he's President elect he will become president in the near future so the next president of the United States because the United States as a country is an exception it requires the article the' although countries proper nouns as a general rule don't require articles this is an exception are you enjoying this lesson if you are then I want to tell you about the finally fluent Academy this is my premium training program where we study native English speakers from TV the movies YouTube and the news so you can improve your listening skills of fast English expand your vocabulary with natural expressions and learn Advanced grammar easily plus you'll have me as your personal coach you can look in the description for the link to learn more or you can go to my website and click on finally fluent Academy now let's continue with our lesson Donald Trump took the stage in his home state of Florida at 2:30 a. m. Wednesday and claimed Victory after winning three critical swing States North Carolina Georgia and Pennsylvania to take the stage take simply means to appear on stage so Donald Trump appeared on stage to address an audience because that's what you do on a stage you address an audience so a stage is the rais platform area where a speaker is and then the audience is in front of or around the speaker so Donald Trump took the stage appeared on stage and claimed Victory you could say declared Victory or announced Victory and then victory of course represents that he won he is the winner we use this structure of the verb claim plus noun in this case it was Victory and that is commonly used but you could also use for example a spot a title or a share among other nouns to represent achieving something notable so for example the startup claimed the title of fastest growing company so the startup achieved this title and it's notable it's something worth paying attention to it's something worth celebrating the startup claimed the title so claim is your verb and you would conjugate that in this case it's in the past simple claim the title of fastest growing company in the because United States is an exception the United States you could also say the UK because that is another exception so he claimed Victory after winning notice this ing because after is a preposition position so you need your verb and ing after winning three critical so critical represents extremely important another synonym would be essential after winning three essential swing States and then the states he surpassed the 270 electoral votes he needed so if he surpassed it means that he had more than 200 270 it could be 271 at that point he surpassed 270 it doesn't matter if it's only by one or by 100 he surpassed it as synonyms you could use go beyond but then you need to conjugate your verb go so in this case the past simple he went beyond or he exceeded now exceeded is commonly used with the word expectations so my expectation is what I think will happen or what I want to happen based on a situation so a very positive thing for your boss to say to you or for you as my student to say to me as your teacher is Jennifer you exceeded my expectations so if your expectations were here with the amount of vocabulary you would learn the quality of the lesson how entertaining or engaging the lesson was this is where you had your expectation this is what you expected you wanted you thought but then the reality was here I exceeded your expectations so that is a very positive thing to hear and I would love it if that was true and I exceeded your expectations that is certainly my goal and notice this preposition here at 5:30 4 a.
m. because we use at with a specific time I'll be fighting for you now notice here this is in quotations so I know that someone is directly saying this and because the last person we spoke about was Donald Trump I assume it is from Donald Trump and I'm confirmed right here that it is I'll be fighting for you with every breath in my body so adding with every breath in my body makes it sound a lot stronger this is commonly used in romantic situations I'll be loving you or thinking about you with every breath in my body Trump told supporters who had gathered at Palm Beach County Convention Center to cheer him on so to cheer someone on is to support someone yeah woohoo way to go let's go so to cheer him on on and if you want to cheer me on because hopefully I'm exceeding your expectations and you want to cheer me on support me you can like this video subscribe to my channel and share this video with your friends that's how you can share me on now to gather so supporters who had gathered it means that the supporters were in their individual locations maybe their homes but then they come together as a group so that is the verb to gather and again I see quotation marks so I know these words are coming out of Trump's mouth I will not rest until we deliver the strong safe and prosperous America that our children deserve and that you deserve so notice he used the future simple we use the future simple for commitments for promises so this is the same as him saying I promise I commit but you don't need to say those words because that's what the future simple is used for so when you tell your boss that you'll send the report by 5 p. m.
you better do that because you're making a promise and a commitment or if you say Jennifer I'll subscribe to your channel you better do that because you're making a promise or a commitment and you don't want to break your promise that is the verb we use with promise if you break a promise it means you don't fulfill your promise you don't say or you don't do what you said you were going to do so you always want to keep your promises because to keep means to fulfill during his nearly 25 minute address so notice here 25 minute is an adjective that describes his address so his address is his speech in this case it's another word for speech is not where he lives which is also one's address and notice they modify the adjective with nearly nearly means almost but not quite so it means maybe the speech was 23 minutes or 22 minutes it was almost 25 minutes but not quite so you could say I nearly felt if you say I fell this is a statement of fact but if you nearly fell it means almost but not quite so you were able to stop yourself from falling during his nearly 25 minute address Trump expressed awe at how far his campaign came and gave tiny glimpses into some of the figures who are likely to shape his next Administration so here the word figures represents people because we refer to celebrities or politicians as public figures public figures we use that word figures but it means public people we just don't say that we say public figures so in this case figures means people here Trump expressed awe awe is when you say wow when you have amazement or it can also be used for a deep respect if you look at something so incredible perhaps the Grand Canyon or winning the presidential election for the second time wow I have deep respect or amazement he expressed awe at how farest campaign came and gave tiny glimpse a glimpse is a brief or partial look so I might give you a glimpse at my next lesson so I let you see one minute of a 30 minute lesson that would be a glimpse a brief or partial look or view from the top of his speech so the top of his speech means the very beginning of his speech when he told a roaring crowd of supporters if the crowd is roaring it means that they're making a lot of noise they're cheering him on they're very excited so there it's Lively and there's a lot of noise a lot of energy in a positive way and again I see quotes So I know these are words coming from Donald Trump's mouth we are going to help our country heal to the final moments okay so this is what he said from the top of his speech so at the beginning of his speech so now we're talking about the final moment so this is another way of saying from beginning to end from beginning to end to the final moments when he promised to put divisions in the rear view mirror well if you're looking in the rear view mirror you're seeing what's behind you so on a timeline that would be the past so this is an another way a more figurative way of saying in the past the rear view mirror represent SS the past Trump attempted to strike a unifying tone strike means to accomplish or achieve or Express and a unifying is one that brings people together which is the opposite of Divisions which tear people apart you can say tear people apart or pull people apart so bring together unify pull apart tear apart divide Trump did not utter the name of his opponent vice president kamla Harris or any Democrat for that matter throughout his roughly 20 minute address roughly means approximately around before we saw nearly nearly means almost and now they're changing it to 20 minute address instead of 25 minute so roughly approximately let's review utter utter this means to speak or say aloud but it isn't used in an everyday context so you wouldn't say I need to practice my uttering skills instead of speaking skills no that would sound ridiculous don't say that it's really used to emphasize so Trump did not utter the name they're emphasizing the fact that he didn't eat even say the person's name kamala's name so if you want to emphasize that you didn't say anything in a meeting maybe there was some reason why you can say I didn't utter a word I didn't utter a word so it's really just used in specific situations to emphasize the fact that you didn't speak or say in this context because it was negative the 2024 campaign is likely to go down as one of the most hotly contested and divisive in history so we already talked about divisive pulling or tearing people apart unifying remember is bringing together with voters overlooking his divisive speeches so his being Donald Trump's felony conviction and three separate Crim criminal indictments to send the Republican former president back to the White House so this is is where he made his comeback he pulled it off let's review some final vocabulary from this section because I want to exceed your expectations so to go down as means to be remembered or regarded as so I only highlighted these two words which means you still need to to be remembered and you need as to be remembered as to be regarded as one of the most highly competitive that would be an alternative to hotly contested highly competitive and divisive in history with voters overlooking if you overlook something it means you ignore it so the voters they knew that Trump had a felony con conviction they knew he had criminal indictments but they ignored it they did that on purpose but we we sometimes use this in the negative let's say you are late for the third time this week your boss might say I can't overlook this I can't overlook this so I can't ignore this and I can't intentionally ignore this I can't overlook this so it means that you might be in trouble and that is the end of the article so what I'll do now is I'll read the article from start start to finish and this time you can focus on my pronunciation Trump pulls off historic White House comeback the Republican comfortably defeated Democrat kamla Harris in what polls had suggested would be a very tight election he becomes the first former president to return to the White House in more than 130 years Donald Trump took the stage in his home state of Florida at 2:30 a. m. Wednesday and claimed Victory after winning three critical swing States North Carolina Georgia and Pennsylvania he surpassed the 270 electoral votes he needed to earn a second term at 5:34 a.
m.
